On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:26:55PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In ext4_groupinfo_create_slab, we create ext4_groupinfo_caches within
> ext4_grpinfo_slab_create_mutex, but set it outside the lock, and there
> does exist some case that we may create it twice and causes a memory
> leak. So set it before we call mutex_unlock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Applied, with a slightly reworded one-line summary:
ext4: fix a race which could leak memory in ext4_groupinfo_create_slab()
- Ted
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